Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

A small museum in this border city displays the contraband art that has been stolen back from smugglers.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

Venice's island of the dead.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

The oldest Methodist church in the United States has been spreading the good news for over two centuries.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.